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Nestlé today opened a global R&D Centre for biscuits and cereal-based snacks in
Santiago de Chile. Present at the inauguration were Álvaro Erazo, Health
Minister, Reinaldo Ruiz, Agriculture Minister, Alberto Undurraga, Mayor of Maipú
and Paul Bulcke, Nestlé CEO.

The new R&D Centre will lead Nestlé?s global research and development in
biscuits and cereal-based snacks, focusing both on innovation and renovation of
products. R&D Santiago will bring together specialists from various fields,
including nutrition, engineering, product development and quality control. With
ingredients such as wholegrain, fruits and nuts, biscuits are part of a healthy
balanced diet. The development of new technologies at R&D Santiago will help to
further reduce sugar and fat levels to make biscuits lighter, without
compromising taste or texture. R&D Santiago will also develop biscuits with
bioactive ingredients to improve digestive health as well as fortified products
to address local micronutrient deficiencies, thereby adapting biscuits to local
tastes and needs.

"The research at this Centre will provide exciting opportunities for innovation
in a very important product category. It will allow us to offer consumers in
Latin America and beyond the choice of tasty, healthy, more nutritious
biscuits," said Nestlé?s CEO Paul Bulcke at the event. Nestlé?s growing and
profitable biscuit business amounted to CHF 1.4 billion in 2008, with 60% of
sales achieved in Latin America. Overall, Latin America is an important region
for Nestlé, where the Company has been present for many decades and reached
sales of CHF 15.5 billion in 2008. In Chile, Nestlé has been present for 76
years, and today has 7 production facilities in different parts of the country.
The new centre in Santiago will benefit from synergies between R&D and biscuit
manufacturing by being based at Nestlé?s industrial site in Maipú, which employs
over 1,200 people.

The Centre will work closely with other Nestlé R&D facilities around the world
and will engage in local governmental initiatives and partnerships with
universities such as the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the
Universidad de Chile. Nestlé?s global R&D network comprises 28 Research,
Development and Technology Centres and employs around 5,000 people.

The webcast of the inauguration event is available live and on-demand on
www.nestle.com.

Contacts:
Media
Robin Tickle                 Tel.: +41 (0)21 924 22 00
Investors
Roddy Child-Villiers     Tel.: +41 (0)21 924 36 22




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